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In a message dated 1/21/2005 1:37:17 PM Central Standard Time, makas@nc.rr.com writes:
One thing I've noticed and seem to think it had reference to the struggle for Independance from Spain. . . But at a certain time period the records in Jalisco seem to stop indicating people by race. Those that were mestizo, mulato, espanol, indio etc are seen in the records as just people. I'm not sure of the date but somewhere in the early 1800's this absence of referring to race occured. Maybe what you are seeing is a gradual move from the "importance" of establishing race to the more politically correct or "preference" of the people to not have race play such an important part. Just a thought.
I did a large paper for my masters degree about African slavery throughout Latin America. One of the things that stood out in my mind was that the "whitening" of Latin America occurred shortly after United States's attained Independence. The general feeling was that the reason U.S. was doing alot better than the rest of America was because they were "white". For a time, there was a policy throughout Latin America to "whiten" their population, by giving away land to anyone who came in from Europe. However, I don't remember this policy applying in Mexico - I do know it applied in Columbia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, etc. Perhaps the "whitening" or omitting the race of people in Mexico occurred in tangeant with the policy throughout Latin America?
Esperanza
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